Wednesday 27 June 2007

French Skater Aurelie Duculty

So far it has been a good year for French skater Aurelie, she is now the newest team member of Nikita Clothing and has just come for a contest in Hossegor where she place 3rd out of 10 skaters - the thing is she was the only girl!! So well done to Aurelie for representing!!

New Pictures and write up of Girl Skate Jam UK

There are some new pics and a write up about the Girl Skate jam event 2007 that happened at Pioneer on the Check it Out website. Go http://www.checkitoutmag.com/
cheers Jenna Selby for the new pics


Evelien.B

Maria.F

Rosie.A

Laura.S

Katie,H

The Organisers Jen and Jenna

Who is on the Move

Emma Richardson and Lois are still traipsing around Europe - hope to hear some updates from them soon.
Unfortunately Laura S and Jenna Selby could not skate the park at Glasto because it rained the whole weekend and Laura had never seen so much mud in her life, which was a real pity.
But Becky Woods did get some skating this weekend at the new Burton Upon Trent skatepark which looks sick. They are also having a proper opening jam on Sat 22nd July (flyer to be up soon) which Becky and Kerry will be attending and possibly Laura.S. You can also read more about this park at http://www.burtonupontrentskatepark.blogspot.com/







Elenia and the rest of the girls on grip crew seemed to have a good time on there tour around Italy - tell us more girls!!



Rolo and Maria F are heading down to Newquay in August to the Rip curl Boardmasters

European Skater Sophie Pope went on the Poseidon tour to South America earlier this year with American skaters Vanessa Torres, Violet Kimble and Nugget. You can see a write up about this tour and video footage at http://www.checkitoutmag.com/



Summer Skate Camps



There are two skateboarding camps happening in Europe this summer - one is with Girlie Camps in Hossegor on the 21st July - 28th July. You get around 2 skate's a day aswell as sightseeing,shopping, parties etc and it is a great way to meet and spend time with other girl skaters. They say this camp is open to all levels from beginner to advanced and according to the website UK girl skater Lucy Adams is instructing this year.
for more info visit http://www.girliecamps.com/




The other camp is with etnies "Get On Board", at Pumpwerk Skatepark in Basel, Switzerland, Aug 4-12th. This camp is aimed to teach girls in a fun relax but safe environment. They have an amazing line-up of coaches including Evelien Bouilliart, Ianire Elorriaga and Lucy Adams. This is also happening over the Etnies European Open Championship's so you will also get to watch some amazing skateboarding. For more info go to http://www.etniesgirl.com

Wednesday 20 June 2007

12 Pack - Etnies Team video

This is abit of slightly "older news" but in nov 06 Etnies released a team video call 12 park - featuring the there 12 best team riders in skateboarding, surfing, moto, bmx and snowboarding. Two of the European skaters featured are Evelien Bouilliart and Louisa Menke, aswell as the legend that is Elissa Steamer and Lauren Perkins. You can see a preview of this at http://etniesgirl.com/12-pack/. - you will also find info about how to order this DVD at this address.

Tuesday 19 June 2007

EVENTS!!!!

On the 7th July (weather permitting) Skate-O-Rama in Brighouse (Nr Bradford) will be taking place and I can confirm they will be having a Girls Division and best of all entry is free!!! The Event will be sponsored by Vans and Nikita. I know that some of the Rogue riders will be out - so go support (and skate!) There will also be live bands throughout the day.



On August 18th Boardroom Skatepark in Leicester will be holding there 2nd Only-Girls night. This is a really fun park with a great mini and bowl and a good street section which has recently been revamped with a super nice ledge and rail. The one that took place last year was loads of fun and it's a great way to skate and meet up with other girl skaters. For more info go to http://www.theboardroomskatepark.co.uk/ you can also see a write about about the last jam at http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/features/2689
if you know of any events please email: sherolls@yahoo.co.uk


Monday 18 June 2007

Girl Skate Jam UK 07 - St Albans










Girl Skate Jam UK 07 - St Albans

Well the 9th of June saw girls from all over the Uk and Europe (Belgium,Spain,Italy) come together at Pioneer for annual All Girl Skate Jam. Thankfully the weather was on our side allowing for a mini ramp jam which didn't happen last year due to rain. The two hour free jam was a great way for the girls to get to know each other and skate in a relaxed environment.

After the free jam the under 18 girls where up - some good tricks went down, Kim did a nice flip to fakie on the quarter and some tech flat land flips including switch and nollie flips and a sex change. Katie did some phat boneless's and early grabs out of the quarters and Georgina's

big heelflips on the bank and the driveway. In the over 18 street section Becky laid down some ollies over the driveway and boardslides on the rail, unfortunately having a bad slam on the big down rail. Kerry did a sweet noseslide down the box, boardslide the flat rail and some half cabs on the banks. Laura laid down a big 180 grab out the quarter and fakie big spin on the hip and 50-50 down the box. Then after a brief break it was outside to the Mini Ramp Jam where some great skating was seen - Katie with some interesting old skool tricks and 5-0 grinds, Sam flowing smoothly with some great fs 5-0's. Maria pulled out some good smiths, whilst Evelien popped out some huge 180 grabs and ollies aswell as tailslides. Silvia from Spain rode with speed and aggression pulling out some disasters and bs/fs 5-0's whilst younger Helena landed some blunts and handplants. Then onto the main event of the day the sponsored street. This section saw some amazing tricks from Rogue Skaters Sadie who pulled out fs flips switch flips, nollie flips on the hip, Maria with good clean flips over the drive way and Helena doing blunt fakie flips out on the quarter, Elenia did some smooth flips on the drive and nollie shovits, whilst Sam landed some boardslides down the big rail and came very close to getting a fs boardslide down as well. Lucy Adams landed some clean bs 50-50's on the box and fakie flips on the banks. Evelien just blew the park away with 50-50 and 5-0's down the rail, boardslide, lipslides feebles and smiths soon followed, landing a huge bluntslide at the end.
All in all it was a great day, everyone enjoyed themselves. There where also DJ's throughout the day and thanks to all the sponsors who sent the prizes and products and big ups to Jenna Selby and Jen for organising the event. The day ended with a couple of beers, lying down on the grass in the local park after a long day of skating.

All in all a very good day - high standard of skating and a great turn out.

The Final results where

Under 18 street
1st Georgina Winter
2nd Katie Hayden
3rd Kim Lewis

Over 18 street
Laura Schwormstedt
2nd Kerri Dennis
3rd Becky Wood

Mini Ramp

1st Helena Long,
2nd Silvia Serret
3rd Evelien Boulliart

Sponsored
1st Evelien Boulliart
2nd Lucy Adams
3rd Sam Bruce

Who is on the Move

Lois (Vans) and Emma Richardson are currently traipsing around Europe on abit of a roadtrip. Lois just coming from the bowlriders comp in Sweden (I think) anyway they will be skating there way through France, Spain and Denmark. Hope you guys have a great time and looking forward to seeing some good pics and hopefully some footage too!


Our Italian friend Elenia Berette and six other girls including Lisa Jacobs are going to be on tour in Italy from the 22nd to 24th June in Viareggio, 3 days of skating and filming so can expect some good footage to come out of that. You can also read more about this on the Italian blog





Laura Schwormstedt and Jenna Selby and hopefully Sadie and Helena will be making there way up to Bradford on the 7th July to skate in the Skate-O-Rama, which is holding a comp with a Girls Division.
During this time Kerry Dennis is going to be enjoying the 24hr Skatepark at NASS - hopefully we will see some pictures from all these shenanigans.
If your a girl skater in Europe going to an event/roadtrip/jam or anything to do with skateboarding/blading and even bmx please let me know at sherolls@yahoo.co.uk

Sunday 17 June 2007

Sophie Friedel

Slide skateboarder and mountain boarder Sophie Friedel has landed herself a short section in the slide skateboarding movie - The Art of Going Sideways - by the Faltown Crew. Sophie who is studying in Falmouth, Cornwall got into the sport through her love of snowboarding (as she is from Germany originally) you can see a short clip of her in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7jMj_0R64
also check out http://www.faltownskateboards.com/ for more information about this new style of downhill skateboarding

Welcome

First of all welcome to the online blog - she rolls for girls who skate in the UK and the rest of Europe - this blog is a way of keeping people in touch with whats going on. If you have any news, photo's spot checks, product reviews etc please email me at sherolls@yahoo.co.uk